We bought a 4 acre home in 2020 with only public utility easements along the road and a stormwater easement at the front near the road for the county to access a storm water pipe that goes under the road. Our home is just under 3 years old. The new neighbors bought the house next door in 2021 and that house was built in 2010 (13 years ago). Today I noticed a corrugated plastic pipe sticking out of the ground into a stream that runs along my property. I assume it is a sump pump drain or down spout drain from the neighbor's house. The pipe exits into that stream about 30 feet into my property and is buried. I have never seen it before as it is now winter and the grass has died back. I am in the middle of installing a fence to mark the property line. It is possible also that the neighbors went in there and weed whacked that pipe which made it suddenly visible although this pipe is in a wooded area and in the ide of stream bank on the far side of some woods on my 4 acre property. My question is that since my state has a 15 year continuous use requirement for adverse possession, how likely is it that this corrugated pipe is an implied, prescriptive easement? I affirmed with my county courthouse the other day that there are no other publicly recorded easements. Can I legally tell them to relocate his pipe 30 feet to their side of the property line? They have access to the same stream on their side of the property line just a few feet away as well - in fact my pipes drain in my yard and I have the stream on my land.
We moved onto our home over a year ago, now new neighbors next door are threatening to put a fence up at our garage so we can’t get out, we share driveway but it’s their property? What do I do! The house has been here since 1987.
Property management companies do this for a living against real owners of properties than charge them rent every month in other words adverse possession
